New psychic fight talents and new quests are among the many options that is perhaps added to RimWorld‘s Royalty expansion, lead developer Tynan Sylvester has said. Today he issued a wee update on plans for the sci-fi colony management sim’s first growth, which launched last week alongside Update 1.1. He defined that whereas he’s tended to function quietly earlier than quite than increase gamers’ expectations and threat dashing them when plans change, now he’s going to be a bit extra open. He additionally famous that big-numbered updates for RimWorld aren’t over, with a minimum of an Update 1.2 coming in some unspecified time in the future.
“In the past I’ve rarely written about the future because release dates and game designs often change unexpectedly during development. I can’t tell you how many times in the past I had a firm expectation of some development outcome that was totally wrong in the end. Not talking about the future avoided the risk that something would change and people would get angry because they perceive some promise to have been broken. Talking less also allowed me to focus on making the game great instead of spending time managing public expectations,” Sylvester stated in today’s blog post.
“Now, though, I think it’s time to give a bit more info of what to expect to to help people in the community make their own decisions and to help modders be ready for what’s coming next.”
So! A number of hotfixes have already come for Update 1.1 and Royalty, and extra will comply with “as needed.” He says these shouldn’t break savegames or mods, and so they hope to be performed with the hotfixing “in a week or two.” After that, they plan to make “a content add-on mostly focused on expanding Royalty content.”
Stressing that none of those will certainly occur, he says he’s contemplating adjustments together with a solution to resign royal titles, extra bulk manufacturing recipes for issues like medicine, additional fight psycasts for technopsychic warriors, some mech cluster adjustments which could make it wise to depart them dormant quite than simply squishing them (“The dramatic tension of having a mech cluster present on the map, but not yet fighting it, seems valuable,” he says), and possibly additional quest content material to provide extra quests variations. Such new Royalty options must also be appropriate with outdated savegames and mods.
Sylvester confirmed Ludeon Studio “will be updating the game further” after that content material add-on too. At least a RimWorld Update 1.2 will come “some day”, he stated, although what is perhaps in it’s a thriller. What’s necessary is that we’ll discover out it’s coming a couple of week earlier than it goes stay.
The thrill of Royalty and 1.1’s shock launch was considerably dampened by the replace breaking compatibility with older mods. Many of us play RimWorld modded to the nines and have been confronted with the choice to both bail on their favorite mods and replace or skip 1.1 and Royalty till modmakers up to date every thing (and, inevitably, not all mods will probably be up to date). With extra discover, modders can have extra time to organize and modfans will get to metal themselves and wrap up saves or whatnot. And hopefully breaking compatibility will probably be much less of a problem in future.
“We’re going to try hard to avoid unnecessary code breakages and keep documents about changes for all future updates, and without such a big Unity update I hope mods in general will be easier or trivially easy to update than the 1.0 -> 1.1 shift.” Sylvester stated. “However, things will still inevitably need updating.”
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